Similar words: hard and fast, steadfast, retardant, dardanelles, bed and breakfast, windfall, grandfather, find fault. Meaning: adj. (of rules) stringently enforced.
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1 It is impossible to give hard-and-fast rules , but here are some points to consider.
2 The school doesn't have any hard-and-fast rules about what children should wear.
3 Clearly there are dangers involved in drawing a hard-and-fast line between the two principles of participation and identity.
4 There is no hard-and-fast divide between water-breathing and air-breathing animals.
5 Is there a hard-and-fast line between good and evil?
6 There are no hard-and-fast rules for success.
7 There is no hard-and-fast rule for the ratio because it depends on the queries involved.
8 I'm not going to give you a hard-and-fast rule on exactly how many goals you should have. It depends on your other commitments,(www.Sentencedict.com) and on how much time and energy each goal demands.
9 Globalization is hard-and-fast direction of human development, and at the same time sustainable development is the common goal of man society.
10 The booth has three hard-and-fast rules: No drugs (except the amyl nitrate and nitrous oxide we sell at the counter), no turning tricks, and always feed the meter if you want to stay in the booth.
11 We need to make, therefore, a hard-and-fast distinction not only between work and play but equally between active play and passive entertainment.
12 There is no hard-and-fast rule for doing this, but adopting a proper link sequence for dependent shared libraries should work most of the time.
13 The issues I raise below are not hard-and-fast rules, but a series of points to consider in the design of your site.
14 Finally, he writes his definitions, following the hard-and-fast rule that each definition must be based on what the quotations in front of him reveal about the meaning of the word.
15 Similarly, it is not possible for him either to give a hard-and-fast definition of Truth.
16 Mrs. Bottomley With respect to my hon. Friend, I do not believe that it is ever possible to cut a hard-and-fast line.
17 Many hotel lobbies display signs that warn against autograph seeking and picture taking, but some fans tend to regard that more as a suggestion than a hard-and-fast rule.
18 Pastor Wundt, the shepherd of the Columbus church, was a sincere and ardent Christian, but his bigotry and hard-and-fast orthodoxy made him intolerant .
19 Enter the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which has become the first authority to pass hard-and-fast rules for liquidity since the crisis.
20 At the press conference to unveil the document Mr Volcker was typically modest, insisting it was more an agenda for discussion than a hard-and-fast blueprint .
21 Admittedly, this kind of program is more difficult toadminister than one with hard-and-fast rules to follow.
22 This lithium finding is very interesting, and may well play out to be a hard-and-fast law, but I think it's still a little early to rule anything out just yet.
23 Multiplayer online games accessed through a game console have hard-and-fast performance rules that derive from the fixed refresh rate of the display device.
24 The experiment shows this system could get a satisfied result successfully in short time, and there is no hard-and-fast claim for image resolution.
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